All the music samples here are original arrangements by Mike Hood.

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SAMPLE SOUNDS

Bayou Biscuit
M.Hood/M.Hood

Everybody Knows
M.Hood/M.Hood

Nothing Takes the Place of You
Toussaint NcCall/M.Hood

Melvin Pervis gets His Man
M.Hood/M.Hood

Le Petite Quadrille
M.Hood/M.Hood

I Hear You Knockin'
Smiley Lewis/M.Hood

Dawn in the Desert
John Kirby/M.Hood

Caravan
Ellington/Tizol/M.Hood

ON MUSIC

The Beat Makes Us Smarter
Picks, pans, rants and raves.
- Mike Hood

550 Feet
Altissimo and the swing of Ryan Howard.
- Tony Gairo

I write the songs that make the whole world fidgit
Lyrics and really dirty jokes.
- John Conahan

Ham handed heady goodness
The plunger solo as pillow talk.
- Dave Champion